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for analysis we bring in michael o'hanlon director of research and a senior of foreign policy fellow at the brookings institution. >> thank you. >> that sound that we played for the president's speech today, is what we heard a fair response to the criticism that the president hasn't acted aggressively enough? >> well it's a very fair way of looking at the theory. in theory any military operation sound appealing when you're frustrated by what you're watching and you want to make a difference. the president is certainly right to remember that when you get involved, you know, it's hard to get out and even if you start providing arms to the rebels, you implicate yourself in a way that it mayes in estate escalation. i agree that we should be arming the rebels and i consider nato arab league and combined air strikes in support of it, but i understand the president's reluctance so far. i think it's about time, though, we re-assess. you've written extensively on military options for syria. is it your view that the united states should enact an air operation? because one of assad's greatest a
for analysis we bring in michael o'hanlon director of research and a senior of foreign policy fellow at the brookings institution. >> thank you. >> that sound that we played for the president's speech today, is what we heard a fair response to the criticism that the president hasn't acted aggressively enough? >> well it's a very fair way of looking at the theory. in theory any military operation sound appealing when you're frustrated by what you're watching and you want to...
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policy and mitt romney would indeed lead us down the road to another catastrop c catastrophic, this time with iran. >> having been there while it was going so wrong, seeing it up close, when you think about our governance, do you think there's something that we can do now as a country to try to make it right, to fix the harm we did to ourselves as a country, not just politically. is there any kind of way we can fix the strategic error of that war internally and internationally? >> i think it boils down to the american people. i would like to say there's institutional change we could make statutorily or otherwise. i would like to say that we could elect different people. i would like to say all manner of things that would be easier to do, but i think the bottom line is the american people have got to get angry and they've got to start doing things, local things, state things, national things, whatever they can find or think to do. i was in great neck, new york, talking to a synagogue group this last weekend, and i'll tell you that all those people were war weary and sick and tired of
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policy disaster in maybe a century. there's paul wolfowitz defending it over the weekend, and michael oh han lon. and donald rumsfeld saying ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberating 25 million iraqis, all who played a roll in history deserve our respect and appreciation. the nervous thing is that he has the gall to use the word history and saying it was all about liberating the iraqi people. they're trying to do it. they're using the tenth year anniversary of the war to make you believe it didn't happen the way it happened. to try to make you believe it was all about liberating the iraqi people from the tyrant. they want you to believe what they proposed to the american people ten, will he have enyears ago, go liberate them from a tyrant. the american said we should, and we went and were greeted as lib ray tors, we knew it would take eight and a half years and cost millions and lose many people. they say it was hard but that difficult liberate work is what we signed up for and has to be remembered as th
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of course he wasn't excusing them, but he was suggesting there was a role in america's foreign policy. he wants america to pull back. he pointed to a split within the republican party on national security before almost anybody else did. he really actually outlined some of the divisions. when you look at his policies what he stands for, abolishing the departments of education, commerce, trade, the federal reserve. i think when he gets more out there in the public, when he's not just giving a talk at cpac, i just think that what he says is going to be too extreme for members of the republican party who support still the hawkish line of american involvement in the world and i think for clearly when he gets into i think into middle america, for running for anything like a presidential nomination that would be a very tricky position, some of those domestic issues, too. >> eugene, this is coming at a time that the gop is trying to reconfigure, the autopsy, what do you do to a corpse to bring it back to life? there are specific policy recommendations, raines preeb is's document. one was abou
of course he wasn't excusing them, but he was suggesting there was a role in america's foreign policy. he wants america to pull back. he pointed to a split within the republican party on national security before almost anybody else did. he really actually outlined some of the divisions. when you look at his policies what he stands for, abolishing the departments of education, commerce, trade, the federal reserve. i think when he gets more out there in the public, when he's not just giving a...
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policy personalities, there were always a few big donors who were sprinkled in and they won't forget it when it comes time in 2015 to begin. chris: hosting a show from berlin, from germany, another event given at the state department with her supporters and the obama supporters was at the white house, you're right. >> she is good at keeping that large group of people who would support her campaign involved, interested, and potentially ready to go. chris: anybody think she is not running? that's it, you just heard it, when we come back, "scoops and [ boy 1 ] hey! that's the last crescent. oh, did you want it? yea we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. that's half that's not half! guys, i have more! thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin here's a better idea. pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. pillsbury grands biscuits let the making begin. chris: welcome back. david, tell me something i don't know. >> the united states
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policy personalities, there were always a few big donors who were sprinkled in and they won't forget it when it comes time in 2015 to begin. chris: hosting a show from berlin, from germany, another event given at the state department with her supporters and the obama supporters was at the white house, you're right. >> she is good at keeping that large group of people who would support her campaign involved, interested, and potentially ready to go. chris: anybody think she is not running? that's it, you just heard it, when we come back, "scoops and chris: welcome back. david, tell me something i don't know. >> the united states has been secretly training syrian rebel forces in jordan, but there is one big problem. the syrian rebels don't want to leave syria to get the training, which means that to make this program work, it's a good program, the u.s. is going to have to go inside syria. chris: ok. >> wow, that's good. i can't top that. as you know, the g.o.p. has conducted an auto autopsy to try to figure out what happened in the last election. all they have done is successfully ident
policy personalities, there were always a few big donors who were sprinkled in and they won't forget it when it comes time in 2015 to begin. chris: hosting a show from berlin, from germany, another event given at the state department with her supporters and the obama supporters was at the white house, you're right. >> she is good at keeping that large group of people who would support her campaign involved, interested, and potentially ready to go. chris: anybody think she is not running?...
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they are rational and we marched off in to the two foreign-policy debacles of the 20th and early 21st century. robert mcnamara, secretary of defense 30 years later spoke of his regret that we have been able to listen. he said it was a failure of the imagination to realize a french are the best informed westerners on vietnam and we didn't take them seriously because we send to didn't have an interest. as the book recounts, i would to the french archives to look at what was going on in the french foreign ministry. they have no culture in their insignificant. but they said as they analyze intelligence from vietnam 17,000 french citizens they are. exiles in paris and they try to share with us. we couldn't here because it is confusing concept we have. >> host: professor friedman a month of been times in there's another anti-nation type feelings? anti-british empire come anti-roman empire? >> guest: indeed. does the right question to ask because it should be to the use of the term we have in the court age of the british empire. perdition officials talk about anglo phobia to explain why they
they are rational and we marched off in to the two foreign-policy debacles of the 20th and early 21st century. robert mcnamara, secretary of defense 30 years later spoke of his regret that we have been able to listen. he said it was a failure of the imagination to realize a french are the best informed westerners on vietnam and we didn't take them seriously because we send to didn't have an interest. as the book recounts, i would to the french archives to look at what was going on in the french...
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the kind of upside down thinking that continues to guide foreign policy decisions in washington d.c. well speaking of upside down policy obama's reason for not prosecuting or even investigating the bush officials was because he wanted to look forward not backward however i can't help but wonder why he continues to look backward to prosecute those who exposed war crimes as whistleblowers instead of the war criminals no good deed remains on punished and those too. the whistle blowers are being punished those who took us into war based on lies are being celebrated this inversion of reality is orwellian it needs to be. reckoned with and that's why i call for this period of truth and reconciliation and you know what this is all law enforcement about looking backwards. hello. can agree with rose talk about the afghanistan war and in terms of looking backwards it was sold to us as a war of necessity in a post nine eleven world of course bush at the time at a ninety five percent approval rating i don't blame people for voting for it thinking that we needed some form of retaliation but did yo
the kind of upside down thinking that continues to guide foreign policy decisions in washington d.c. well speaking of upside down policy obama's reason for not prosecuting or even investigating the bush officials was because he wanted to look forward not backward however i can't help but wonder why he continues to look backward to prosecute those who exposed war crimes as whistleblowers instead of the war criminals no good deed remains on punished and those too. the whistle blowers are being...
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ever expect to learn from the biggest foreign policy disaster in america's recent history if we don't hold our leaders accountable for the evil they've caused so what is the lasting legacy of the iraq war and how can we prosecute the war criminals who started it let's ask our architect blogger and political advocate for the american arab anti-discrimination committee read welcome back to the program thank you for having me again great to have you with us where were you on this day in two thousand and three i was in my parents' place in baghdad and actually went back to iraq from jordan because i knew that there would be and be just so i went to be with my family to be. collecting food like you know storing more food and preparing for the invasion and i remember waking up. on this day on the sounds of the first bombs that's been on baghdad what was your family's experience it was a jihad because you know my family went through so many wars in the last we would be doing the talking on war they would have this was during the one nine hundred ninety one and beat the bombing campaign and a
ever expect to learn from the biggest foreign policy disaster in america's recent history if we don't hold our leaders accountable for the evil they've caused so what is the lasting legacy of the iraq war and how can we prosecute the war criminals who started it let's ask our architect blogger and political advocate for the american arab anti-discrimination committee read welcome back to the program thank you for having me again great to have you with us where were you on this day in two...
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of the amendments that the chair lady asked to be put in order are incredibly fundamental important foreign policy issues that you do not do at 3:00 in the morning. >> harris: elizabeth prann has more from washington. elizabeth? >> reporter: it took all night but the senate narrow le approved a budget for the first time in four years, passing 50-49. a $3.7 trillion blueprint plan raising nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes and the government would still be in a deficit after ten years. senator patty murray argues it creates jobs and economic growth. for the democrats the vote is a big accomplishment. >> first of all, over the last it two decades the average budget resolution considered 78 amendments. we have done 101. average votearama 35 amendments. we have done 70. twice as many. this has been a herculean feat. >> reporter: 70 voted on mostly symbolic gestures which show exactly where the senators stand on issues and when you take a 13-hour 6 minute vote there to be a little bit of hume. >>> ahumor. >> as of this time, 5:00 a.m. there has not been a day without a budget being passed in
of the amendments that the chair lady asked to be put in order are incredibly fundamental important foreign policy issues that you do not do at 3:00 in the morning. >> harris: elizabeth prann has more from washington. elizabeth? >> reporter: it took all night but the senate narrow le approved a budget for the first time in four years, passing 50-49. a $3.7 trillion blueprint plan raising nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes and the government would still be in a deficit after ten...
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foreign policy. the obama administration has actually accomplished a pretty remarkable feat which is that it's managed to be disliked by both sides you know even president bush wasn't very popular with the palestinians when he was actually really by the israelis obama's ratings on both sides are down. ten percent in israel and in the twenty's and palestinians so he you know is remarkably for a president who came with so much of goodwill when he came to office has managed to squander it on both sides and i think one reason is that is middle east policy is in complete and total disarray he doesn't know you know which side to lean on you know he let israel continue with the settlement activity at the same time as he keeps giving them it is completely unable to control benjamin netanyahu and on the other side his strategy between you know trying to buttress and abbas against hamas has failed to do so you know i think the u.s. middle east policy has never been in greater disarray and it wasn't great to be
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policy agenda was the resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict it's no secret that a bomb in a town yahoo don't exactly like each other or see eye to eye and many people feel that this latest visit by the american president is nothing more than a p.r. effort but it doesn't ignore the fact that there is still a great deal of mistrust between the two leaders as was underlined in this comment by the israeli prime minister as you can never see the two different versions to add even to the greatest of our friends what is also interesting is that syria has received more attention and then the decades old conflict between the israelis and palestinians and the american and israeli leadership have been focusing more on what is happening on syria than on this never ending conflict here right on their doorstep this morning thursday the american president will be here in ramallah for talks with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and the palestinian prime minister salam fayad we don't exactly know what is on the agenda but i can tell you that palestinians are angry firstly obama is vis
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foreign policy the fossil fuel industry also enormously impacts domestic policy and the media narrative the subject my next guest has tackled throughout his entire career exposing some of the biggest oil corporations from the u.s. to venezuela and everywhere in between is a close friend of late venezuelan president hugo chavez investigative journalist and author of many books including the last one billionaires and ballot bandits how to steal an election and nine easy steps great palettes thanks so much for joining me. live near abbey so you spent a lot of time with hugo chavez when he died he was vilified by the u.s. government and the media like but as you pointed out this wasn't always the case so what was the turning point for when he revolved into u.s. public enemy number one well shock shock it's the oil chavez back in two thousand and two two thousand and one decided that he was going to give it away thing more. had been selling for about fifteen dollars a barrel when it went up he said you're going to have to pay ford the us oil companies are paying a royalty for venezuela super
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i think there are people who would like a less aggressive foreign policy. there are all kinds of issues that don't neatly fit in the left/right paradigm that i think would help because we are not the doing well in a lot of the purple and blue states so we do need a candidate that would appeal across the left/right paradigm. >> chris: we have about 30 seconds left. your budget which would balance the budget your plan would balance the budget in five years. paul ryan's which has come under attack for balancing it in ten years. you introduced it three consecutive years if and the most votes was this weekend when you got 18. isn't that out o of the mainstream? >> the thing is i think the legislature is ten years pee the public.behind i introduced a bill to quit sending money to egypt. 9 o percent of americans agree with me and 80% of the senators disagree with me. i would argue that the senate is not up-to-date on what the people really want chris thank you for joining us and always good to talk with you, sir. >> thank you. >> chris: up next, the supreme court
i think there are people who would like a less aggressive foreign policy. there are all kinds of issues that don't neatly fit in the left/right paradigm that i think would help because we are not the doing well in a lot of the purple and blue states so we do need a candidate that would appeal across the left/right paradigm. >> chris: we have about 30 seconds left. your budget which would balance the budget your plan would balance the budget in five years. paul ryan's which has come under...
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policy that's exactly the way we act there's a gap between american morality as individuals and between them or reality of the nation as a whole and we don't seem to react to that and that makes us culpable as americans into crimes that we see we just have a minute left i want to ask you i guess after all there's a what lessons have we learned none well i think we learned never to. so. good senators saying that in their lives sarah what do you think what lessons have we have we learned hopefully one are a couple something have we learned anything from all of this never never to trust the corporate media which is actually aligned with the banks sea oil corporations the military corporations in this country and to ally on mobilizing the people themselves millions of people opposed the u.s. war in iraq in huge demonstrations worldwide in the us literally millions thousands and thousands of actions were organized i was very much part of that ten years ago and still continuing to this day we need to do that much more forcefully we can't accept this and we have to resist it and we also have t
policy that's exactly the way we act there's a gap between american morality as individuals and between them or reality of the nation as a whole and we don't seem to react to that and that makes us culpable as americans into crimes that we see we just have a minute left i want to ask you i guess after all there's a what lessons have we learned none well i think we learned never to. so. good senators saying that in their lives sarah what do you think what lessons have we have we learned...
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foreign policy wise iraq poses some challenges. particularly now because of syria because maliki has become and emerged essentially as a supporter of bashar al-assad because he fear it is consequences of a sunni success in syria and what it might mean for his own domain and his own rule in iraq. so it's become a very serious foreign policy challenge and he, in fact, has been cooperating with iran which has been flying military supplies across iraq to damascus. >> woodruff: what do you see as the long lasting effects on u.s. foreign policy. >> i think these large costly conventional force operations we saw in iraq, we had in afghanistan has led many to recoil here in washington, particularly at senior levels of the obama administration to some degree i think it's propelled the white house towards a greater reliance on drones, intelligence operations, on the use of small special forces teams to target terrorist cells around the world as opposed to trying to do more traditional nation building and remaking of society. perform. >> wood
foreign policy wise iraq poses some challenges. particularly now because of syria because maliki has become and emerged essentially as a supporter of bashar al-assad because he fear it is consequences of a sunni success in syria and what it might mean for his own domain and his own rule in iraq. so it's become a very serious foreign policy challenge and he, in fact, has been cooperating with iran which has been flying military supplies across iraq to damascus. >> woodruff: what do you see...
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we'll come back and talk more about that and what it meant fo american foreign policy going forward. we continue our discussion on this tenth anniversary of the iraqi war with the distinguished panel of people who observed and written about the war sinces beginning. from cambridge, glrngd john burns, the london bureau chief of the "new york times." in new york, michael gordon, iefch military rrespondent for the "new york times." fouad ajami, a senior fellow of the hoomp institution. dexter filkins of the "new yorker" we hope will be joining us shortly. i go back to michael gordon.ly tell me what the judgment of history will be about our participation in the iraqi war. >> i think too much attentionwa has been paid to the decision tc go to war and not enough on the management of the withdrawal from iraq and where we go from here with iraq. because the story of iraq is not over. and we shodn't just p thisov chapter behind us and say we're done with it. there were opportunities to be engaged with iraq by the u.s. government on the level of common citizens. there's a tbalt for influence i
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they were able to have an impact on what was going to happen in terms of foreign policy which was not true with iraq. >> when you talk about iraq and world war ii, you talk about how the dissenters in both were vilified and cast as traitors. isn't that necessary to go to war if we had an actually sober, calm discussion about whether or not we should go to war, i think in a lot of cases we would decide maybe, no, we should not. >> i think whenever you talk about going to war, that is going to happen. i think the one side, the critics of the war are going to be criticized. and i must say that in those two years before world war ii, it was really nasty. it turned really savage at some point. but again, it was a real exercise in democracy. i mean, democracy is often messy. and it is often loud. and that was true back then. but we ended up -- >> why was it worse for the hawks? why is it always bad for the doves and never for the hawks? >> well, you're right. both sides need to be abe to make their voices heard. before world war ii, the isolationists really had a chance to make their voices
they were able to have an impact on what was going to happen in terms of foreign policy which was not true with iraq. >> when you talk about iraq and world war ii, you talk about how the dissenters in both were vilified and cast as traitors. isn't that necessary to go to war if we had an actually sober, calm discussion about whether or not we should go to war, i think in a lot of cases we would decide maybe, no, we should not. >> i think whenever you talk about going to war, that is...
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foreign policy. we will also take your calls, e- mails, and host: good morning, and welcome to the washington journal. the federal reserve chairman holds his news conference with .eporters u.s. aid officials testify on syria. the commerce panel hears from ,he faa about sequestration and a hearing on domestic use of drones. all those events and more on c- span.org. 10 years ago today marks the us- led invasion into iraq. that is where we begin this morning to get your take on the 10th anniversary. here are the numbers -- host: send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook. we will get to your phone calls in just a minute. is the us from baghdad pentagon correspondent for the washington post. begin with your headline this morning. at least 60 are killed in iraq on tuesday. what happened, and is this a pattern? guest: it has been the deadliest day since u.s. troops have pulled out. an al qaeda group took responsibility for this wave of bombings, and said it was doing so to seek revenge from the gove
foreign policy. we will also take your calls, e- mails, and host: good morning, and welcome to the washington journal. the federal reserve chairman holds his news conference with .eporters u.s. aid officials testify on syria. the commerce panel hears from ,he faa about sequestration and a hearing on domestic use of drones. all those events and more on c- span.org. 10 years ago today marks the us- led invasion into iraq. that is where we begin this morning to get your take on the 10th...
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. >> dick cheney was a trained foreign policy expert. so was colin powell. >> indeed, the facts and iraq's behavior show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. >> the national debate over going to war in iraq was heavily lopsided in favor of war. in the united states senate, the war resolution passed with 77 votes, only 23 senators opposed it, including only one republican rhode island senator rink on chafee. >> what concerns me most is the pattern we see applied to iraq, that is abandoning of our alliances and willing to be preemptive without any real evidence of weapons of mass destruction. >> in the house of representatives the war resolution passed with 296 votes. 133 house members voted against it, including a congresswoman from san francisco who was working her way up the leadership ladder. >> let's do what is proportionate, appropriate, which mitigates risk for our young people, another cost in addition to human lives, cost to terrorism and cost to the economy a
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powers you know there's nothing about oil and gas you know foreign policy in the. bible and these are not religious fights that have been very political fights but unfortunately they have. religious and. a let's talk more about the sectarian violence i mean what factions are involved other than what you kind of briefly just talked about who are there fill it with and could this potentially deteriorate into a full on civil war here it might actually be it keeps on getting wars and wars five years ago the divisions were not as deep there were more political divisions then six thirty i'm so five years ago you could point out to some sunnis and some shiite. it's. against. the shiites it wasn't hugely security and now it's worse i think the demonstrations that iraq has witnessed in the last three months were more security and what iraq have experienced in the last decade. pressure on the government is coming mostly from iraq you soon you saw the iraqi courts and most of the. not really supportive of the demonstrations it is more sectarian then how would it look like for
powers you know there's nothing about oil and gas you know foreign policy in the. bible and these are not religious fights that have been very political fights but unfortunately they have. religious and. a let's talk more about the sectarian violence i mean what factions are involved other than what you kind of briefly just talked about who are there fill it with and could this potentially deteriorate into a full on civil war here it might actually be it keeps on getting wars and wars five...
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so, i think there are people who would like a less aggressive foreign policy and there are all kinds of issues that don't neatly left in the left-right paradigm that i think would help, because we're not doing very well in a lot of these states, purple and blue states and we need a candidate that would appeal across the left-right paradigm. >> chris: briefly, 30 seconds left, though. your budget which would balance the budget, your plan, would balance the budget in five years, paul ryan's which has come under attack for balancing it in ten years, you have introduced it three consecutive years in the senate, the most votes you got was this weekend when you got 18 of 100 senators, isn't it out of the mainstream? >> well, the thing is, i think the legislature is about ten years behind the public. for example, i have introduced amendments to quit sending money to egypt and build bridges here in the the united states instead of in egypt. and i bet you 90% of the american people agree with me but 80% of my senators disagree. i argue the senate is not up-to-date with what the people really
so, i think there are people who would like a less aggressive foreign policy and there are all kinds of issues that don't neatly left in the left-right paradigm that i think would help, because we're not doing very well in a lot of these states, purple and blue states and we need a candidate that would appeal across the left-right paradigm. >> chris: briefly, 30 seconds left, though. your budget which would balance the budget, your plan, would balance the budget in five years, paul ryan's...
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policy. turns out, it's the willie sutton approach to dealing with the european economic crisis. one of the few places they have any resources. anything that approaches the scale of what they need. and it makes no sense and it's not going to last. >> very good. >> this is interesting. fresh poll numbers out from cnn opinion research showing there is very little support for leaders in washington. to boast about right now. 47% of americans approve of the job that president obama is doing compared to 50% who disapprove. his net approval rating has dropped 15 percentage points since january. now, despite his recent outreach to republicans, 56% believe the president's not doing enough to cooperate with a full 70% thinking the gop is not reaching out. that matches an all-time high. as far as the budget goes, only 31% say they approve of how the president is handling how government raises and spends money. >> wow. >> just 19% support the way congressional republicans are dealing with it. and it was
policy. turns out, it's the willie sutton approach to dealing with the european economic crisis. one of the few places they have any resources. anything that approaches the scale of what they need. and it makes no sense and it's not going to last. >> very good. >> this is interesting. fresh poll numbers out from cnn opinion research showing there is very little support for leaders in washington. to boast about right now. 47% of americans approve of the job that president obama is...
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policy is that dangerous is that troubling in any way the course of this is not a popularity poll i mean we're not out there to be loved something george w. bush said right was i mean draw a comparison of thirty nine years of military officer so i go back a long way i remember something called the cold war and i bet you many of your viewers remember it as well and during the cold war we actually talked about the close fight and the deep fight and here in the cold war the deep fight was largely illogical and it was about western views towards economics and political democracy and soviet jews and frankly that was argued very strongly between the two groups but one that was argued mike hayden from pittsburgh pennsylvania had a legitimate view on communism because whatever else communism may or may not have been it was a western philosophy and so when we entered that conversation my views had legitimacy because i was speaking from my own cultural tradition. in the current war the deep has to do with something going on inside islam though it's very hard for my caden from pittsburgh to en
policy is that dangerous is that troubling in any way the course of this is not a popularity poll i mean we're not out there to be loved something george w. bush said right was i mean draw a comparison of thirty nine years of military officer so i go back a long way i remember something called the cold war and i bet you many of your viewers remember it as well and during the cold war we actually talked about the close fight and the deep fight and here in the cold war the deep fight was largely...
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i'm jointed by hillary levervitt, professor of american foreign policy. she specialized in affairs at the state department during the clinton and bush administrations and joined by matt center for american progress. seems like i just spoke to you last night. tell us what this speech means. does this mean the administration is willing to put forth a serious effort towards brokering peace in the middle east and specifically between israelis and palestinians or is this a tremendous speech that doesn't have the substance necessary to carry forth? >> i think it is a speech that underscores obama's speech in rhetoric. unfortunately i don't think it was tremendous in substance. the key aspects what's really necessary for a two state solution, halt to settlements, that was completely dropped from obama's prior substance filled speeches. unfortunately this plan or idea isn't going anywhere. >> why did he drop it? didn't want to insult the israelis to their face? didn't want to challenge them that toughly? >> i think the whole trip was not to make peace in the midd
i'm jointed by hillary levervitt, professor of american foreign policy. she specialized in affairs at the state department during the clinton and bush administrations and joined by matt center for american progress. seems like i just spoke to you last night. tell us what this speech means. does this mean the administration is willing to put forth a serious effort towards brokering peace in the middle east and specifically between israelis and palestinians or is this a tremendous speech that...
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policy was resolving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between obama and netanyahu there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of iraq and here we have mr yahoo continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact that mr han yahoo still holds firm to israeli commitment even if it means turning his back on his close allies we here in this clip israel can never see the road to defer nurse to others even to the greatest of our friends there's already been a handful of demonstrations against the american president here in the west bank and certainly today the police are in full force on the streets there's a strong security presence at the palace. opinion position is that there needs to be a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders there needs to be a halt in construction of settlements and in this respect
policy was resolving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between obama and netanyahu there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of iraq and here we have mr yahoo continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact...
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president obama returns from the middle east where his new term foreign policy is put in palestine in the backseat in order to smooth things over with israel more on that when we come back stay with us. a clear image of the iraq story a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi. u.s. president barack obama chose israel as a destination of choice or his first visit abroad since as a reelection despite earlier words on bolstering u.s. arab relations he largely skirted the palestinian issue with focusing more on smoothing things over with israel's leadership or his policy or has more across this region the winds of change bring both promise and peril so i see this visit as an opportunity but an opportunity for to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations to restate america's unwavering commitment to israel's security. and to speak directly to the people of israel nothing about the palestinians the stalled peace process or any pressure on tel aviv to stop settlement ex
president obama returns from the middle east where his new term foreign policy is put in palestine in the backseat in order to smooth things over with israel more on that when we come back stay with us. a clear image of the iraq story a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi. u.s. president barack obama chose israel as a destination of choice or his first visit abroad since as a...
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. >> i would argue that a more restrained policy is the true conservative foreign policy as it includes two tenants of true conservatism. respect and fiscal discipline. instead of large land wars, we would, when necessary, target our enemy and strike with lethal force. >> when it comes to watching change shift, think about national security. national security was at the heart and soul of the republican party at least for about a generation and a half and democrats owned the national security issue for years. republican his to rely on general in order to gain credibility on foreign policy issues in the 50s. it took the vietnam war and then the iran hostage situation for democrats to lose that. republicans and bush and iraq lost that and it hurt the party and still hasn't recovered ever since. lots of people lost lives. the political impact is something that history should not ignore in this country. mr. russert, back to you. i will see you live tomorrow. >> thank you, chuck. this friday catch the msnbc documentary hubris: selling the iraq war, with our own rachel maddow. friday at 9:00 p
. >> i would argue that a more restrained policy is the true conservative foreign policy as it includes two tenants of true conservatism. respect and fiscal discipline. instead of large land wars, we would, when necessary, target our enemy and strike with lethal force. >> when it comes to watching change shift, think about national security. national security was at the heart and soul of the republican party at least for about a generation and a half and democrats owned the national...
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let's get some insight now on the syria situation and other foreign policy challenges. joining me tonight is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman mike rogers. mr. chairman, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: let's start in syria. what do we know about the possibility of chemical weapons being used there? >> if you take the whole body of work, from the intelligence reports over the last two years, i believe it's highly probable that chemical weapons were used at least in some small amounts in syria. which is in violation of the chemical weapons convention. >> bret: now, foreign policy magazine, they have this quote. syrian support group, s.s.g., the only american organization licensed by the u.s. government to send money directly to the fsa, which is on the ground in syria, issued a press release yesterday claiming the gas that killed civilians in separate instances, two separate instances near me das cuss was a chemical agent similarlant found -- schismlant found in pesticide. it causes similar effects like muscle, ne
let's get some insight now on the syria situation and other foreign policy challenges. joining me tonight is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman mike rogers. mr. chairman, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: let's start in syria. what do we know about the possibility of chemical weapons being used there? >> if you take the whole body of work, from the intelligence reports over the last two years, i believe it's highly...